
Crisis Crunching: What CrisisWatch Says about Today’s Conflicts – and Tomorrow’s
The world seemed like a dangerous place when Crisis Group started producing a monthly conflict tracker, CrisisWatch, a couple of years into the new millennium. But as we enter the third decade of the 2000s, it is apparent that, if anything, the sense of foreboding back then was understated.
Around the world, wars and other crises are causing immense human suffering. Syria’s eight-year tragedy has left half a million people dead and more than half the population displaced. Ten million Yemenis are at the edge of starvation due to civil strife and outside intervention. Fighting in Afghanistan is killing more civilians in that country since the UN started collecting data.… Seguir leyendo »